Zetoc: T.O.C. and RSS via openURL

“Zetoc is a bibliographic current awareness service that provides discovery of relevant literature within the British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents of journal articles and conference papers, to UK researchers, learners and teachers.

The Zetoc database, which is updated daily, contains details of around 20,000 current journals and approximately 16,000 conference papers per year, covering all disciplines. A new addition to the Zetoc portfolio is an RSS journals service that syndicates the arrival of new articles into Zetoc, providing researchers with an alternative method of keeping up-to-date with the latest articles in their favourite journals.

Zetoc being publisher agnostic provides RSS syndication of a large number of journals. For each article within an RSS feed there is a URL link to its full bibliographic details within the Zetoc web interface, providing the possibility of locating the article using the usual Zetoc document delivery options.

Thus if a user has an institutional OpenURL resolver, they can easily move from an article’s details within an RSS feed to a menu of related services, including potentially an appropriate copy of the full text.”